Book read and reviewed (or soon-to-be reviewed) in 2023:
Son of Elsewhere – Elamin Abdelmahmoud
You’re Never Weird on the Internet – Felicia Day
Eliza and Her Monsters – Francesca Zappia
Pieces of Her – Karin Slaughter
This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub
In Five Years – Rebecca Serle
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (Bright Falls #1) – Ashley Herring Blake
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life – Samantha Irby
London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency – Kate MacDougall
The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller #1) – Shaun Bythell
Will You Read This Please? – Joanna Cannon
That Was When People Started to Worry – Nancy Tucker
Ten Steps to Nanette – Hannah Gadsby
Community Board – Tara Conklin
People I Want to Punch in the Throat – Jen Mann
A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention – Rebecca Shiller
Unraveling – Peggy Orenstein
Better Late Than Never – Emma Mahony
Garden Variety – Christy Wilhelmi
Amazing Grace Adams – Fran Littlewood
Funny Farm – Laurie Zaleski
Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart
The Littlest Library – Poppy Alexander
Trust – Hernan Diaz
Trespasses – Louise Kennedy
How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
Foster – Claire Keegan
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Screaming on the Inside – Jessica Grose
Life in the Garden – Penelope Lively
A Life in Stitches – Rachael Herron
How to Keep House While Drowning – K.C. Davis
The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club #1) – Kate Jacobs
The Rural Diaries – Hilarie Burton Morgan
Honey Farm Dreaming – Anna Featherstone
The Yarn Whisperer – Clara Parkes
Knitting Yarns – Ann Hood, ed.
Farm City – Novella Carpenter
Enchantment – Katherine May
Quietly Hostile – Samantha Irby
Dirty Laundry – Roxanne Emery and Richard Pink
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life – Georgia Pritchett (read twice)
Coasting – Elise Downing
Knitting Pearls – Ann Hood, ed.
Books read and not reviewed:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2) – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3) – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4) – J.K. Rowling
– These three were re-reads as we were reading the illustrated versions to our kid.
The Witches’ Tree (Agatha Raisin #28) – M.C. Beaton
The Dead Ringer (Agatha Raisin #29) – M.C. Beaton
Beating About the Bush (Agatha Raisin #30) – M.C. Beaton
Hot to Trot (Agatha Raisin #31) – M.C. Beaton
Down the Hatch (Agatha Raisin #32) – M.C. Beaton
– I very much enjoy the Agatha Raisin series – they’re light, fun, quick, entertaining and not at all anything to do with reality. But one is much the same as the next, and I don’t have enough to say about any of them to review them.
Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid (re-read)
– I decided to listen to the audio version of this when I watched the show (not as good as I hoped and though I may be the only one who feels this, I hated the music)
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) – Richard Osman
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) – Richard Osman
– I adore this series. I should have reviewed them immediately as soon as I finished each one, but I didn’t. Now it feels too late unless I re-read them as I can’t really separate a lot of the continuing plot and character development between the three. But the lack of review is not a negative sign – these are brilliant, smart, funny, have excellent characters (even better that they are seniors and still full of life and abilities and intelligence) and are a joy to read. 8/10 or around that to each.
Midlife Bites – Jen Mann
– I had just read her other book, and the two did sort of blend in my memory. But it has the same irreverence, the same tone, and similar insights into life as a middle-aged woman.
Group – Christie Tate
– I have only a few fuzzy memories of this book. I didn’t dislike it, but it also didn’t really stand out to me for long. I don’t think I want to re-read it to find my thoughts on it.